The 5 group events in public dungeons are much easier and quicker then the leads.

There are several purple treasures that drop often (like the Rivenspire throne) or the gold one from Coldharbour. Pick a few flowers in Hollow City and you'll get it.

Or take one of the other 2 options, 5 group events in public dungeons is no effort at all.

Many of them can be completed as part of normal gameplay. Open 2 chests? Harvest 5 nodes? Use ultimates twice? Hell yes. Kill 10 reptiles? Highly likely. I don't think there have been any I had to go far out of my way for.

Last week was the first weekly I skipped. I just didn't feel like doing any of them.

cyberjanet wrote: »

Why did I think that endeavours would normally be completed as a part of normal game play? Where did I read that? Or was it in the Twitch stream?

Right now I'm wondering how in the course of normal game play I'm going to excavate 7 purple or gold-quality antiquities. Can someone explain to me where the leads are going to come from? Because I'm the person who does the boss run three or four times in an area before I get the lead. Three weeks in Bad Man's Hallows (I never want to go there again.) And i'm currently levelling excavating on a character.

Translation: This week's options aren't how I play the game, so I'm mad about it

I adore antiquities. Massive lore hound. So this is definitely going to be an easy week for me I think we've just got to accept that some weeks will line up with our preferred playstyles, some won't, and at the end of the day this is an entirely optional bonus system that rewards participation but doesn't lock you out of anything if you don't happen to engage with it some weeks. I already view the dailies that way, and frequently say "no thanks" to getting all three.

I don't know what to tell you. I already have 6 purple/gold leads lined up for when my newest alt can excavate purples.

Meanwhile, I wouldn't normally do 5 group events in a week, but we'll probably do that in a guild event this week, so that would also be an option.

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

The 5 group events in public dungeons are much easier and quicker then the leads.

+1, especially if you"re doing mage guild daily with Bastian to level his rep, they always take you right next to the group event spot in a public dungeon, so 2 birds with one stone public dungeon

To be fair...

It's a list of all leads I currently have. Without actually farming for any of them. They're all duplicates (and some of them, like that Boethra Shrine, six-plicates. Lol) so I'm not in any hurry to dig them up. It isn't really some unthinkable thing you'd have to farm for for days if you play regularly and don't dig up antiquities as soon as you get leads - which isn't quite so rare I'd say.

That aside, there're 2 other options out there. And let's be honest, it's not that these 160 endeavors are gonna make or break it anyway. It really isn't such a big deal I'd say.

AlnilamE wrote: »

Olauron wrote: »

Darkstorne wrote: »

cyberjanet wrote: »

Why did I think that endeavours would normally be completed as a part of normal game play? Where did I read that? Or was it in the Twitch stream?

Right now I'm wondering how in the course of normal game play I'm going to excavate 7 purple or gold-quality antiquities. Can someone explain to me where the leads are going to come from? Because I'm the person who does the boss run three or four times in an area before I get the lead. Three weeks in Bad Man's Hallows (I never want to go there again.) And i'm currently levelling excavating on a character.

Translation: This week's options aren't how I play the game, so I'm mad about it

I adore antiquities. Massive lore hound. So this is definitely going to be an easy week for me I think we've just got to accept that some weeks will line up with our preferred playstyles, some won't, and at the end of the day this is an entirely optional bonus system that rewards participation but doesn't lock you out of anything if you don't happen to engage with it some weeks. I already view the dailies that way, and frequently say "no thanks" to getting all three.

I guess the point is
1) zone purple antiquities are once per account, if you have done them, there is no way to get them again no matter whether you like antiquities or not;
2) getting second purple and gold furnishing leads is a pain, from my experience it is more likely to get radiant apex from a crate than second fire-bird feather or shrine of Auri-el, so it is also not something that you can get from "just playing a game" in 7 days. Actually, I doubt that I would get 7 more such antiquities in 7 years.

No idea about purple or gold mythics, I don't look for them and I don't want them, but the forum threads lead me to believe that it is not something to get just from playing either.

The purple furnishings drop a lot, actually. I have so many Tall Papa's Lamps and Maomer Shrines and Pillars of Torture and Infernace Gates. It's a pretty easy way to level scrying on alts.

Also, the Void Crystal Anomaly in Coldharbour drops pretty much every third node. I've gotten it running from the bank to the wayshrine and gathering along the way.

But again, this is 1 of 3 weekly endeavours. Each endeavour will be easier for some players and harder for others.

Last time the Antiquity Weekly came out, I did something else because I didn't have that many leads. This week, I do.

You must be lucky because I try my best to get some furniture for my homes and the leads won't drop.I made sure I did dig them up so I don't have the leads anymore counting as active.
The Infernace Gates,The yellow fire feather from summerset and some other just wont drop for me anymore.

Lady_Galadhiel wrote: »

AlnilamE wrote: »

Olauron wrote: »

Darkstorne wrote: »

cyberjanet wrote: »

Why did I think that endeavours would normally be completed as a part of normal game play? Where did I read that? Or was it in the Twitch stream?

Right now I'm wondering how in the course of normal game play I'm going to excavate 7 purple or gold-quality antiquities. Can someone explain to me where the leads are going to come from? Because I'm the person who does the boss run three or four times in an area before I get the lead. Three weeks in Bad Man's Hallows (I never want to go there again.) And i'm currently levelling excavating on a character.

Translation: This week's options aren't how I play the game, so I'm mad about it

I adore antiquities. Massive lore hound. So this is definitely going to be an easy week for me I think we've just got to accept that some weeks will line up with our preferred playstyles, some won't, and at the end of the day this is an entirely optional bonus system that rewards participation but doesn't lock you out of anything if you don't happen to engage with it some weeks. I already view the dailies that way, and frequently say "no thanks" to getting all three.

I guess the point is
1) zone purple antiquities are once per account, if you have done them, there is no way to get them again no matter whether you like antiquities or not;
2) getting second purple and gold furnishing leads is a pain, from my experience it is more likely to get radiant apex from a crate than second fire-bird feather or shrine of Auri-el, so it is also not something that you can get from "just playing a game" in 7 days. Actually, I doubt that I would get 7 more such antiquities in 7 years.

No idea about purple or gold mythics, I don't look for them and I don't want them, but the forum threads lead me to believe that it is not something to get just from playing either.

The purple furnishings drop a lot, actually. I have so many Tall Papa's Lamps and Maomer Shrines and Pillars of Torture and Infernace Gates. It's a pretty easy way to level scrying on alts.

Also, the Void Crystal Anomaly in Coldharbour drops pretty much every third node. I've gotten it running from the bank to the wayshrine and gathering along the way.

But again, this is 1 of 3 weekly endeavours. Each endeavour will be easier for some players and harder for others.

Last time the Antiquity Weekly came out, I did something else because I didn't have that many leads. This week, I do.

You must be lucky because I try my best to get some furniture for my homes and the leads won't drop.I made sure I did dig them up so I don't have the leads anymore counting as active.
The Infernace Gates,The yellow fire feather from summerset and some other just wont drop for me anymore.

The griffon feather I only just got, but I didn't grind for it. I usually get the purples when I'm opening treasure chests (from a map or not) or safeboxes looking for other stuff.

Andre_Noir wrote: »

Choroll is a neutral city in Cyro with no port there and far from main paths. And it's offer 9-10 quests per day.

In a low population campaign, you may never see anyone there for an hour or more.

Darkstorne wrote: »

Translation: This week's options aren't how I play the game, so I'm mad about it

No. I don't do Cyrodiil quests and I'm not interested in redoing public dungeon group quests for no particular reason, and I'm not mad about those even though that's not the game I play. What I am annoyed about is getting an RNG-driven grindfest as an endeavour - which I was pretty sure wasn't part of the plan. It would take me a month of really trying hard to get enough leads to achieve this one, and even then a month may not be enough.

Like others here, I have several purple and gold leads that I never bothered to scry and excavate yet, because I'd already done them several times before and the only way I seem to be able to stop getting leads for them is to let the leads sit undone.

I considered doing either the antiquities or public dungeon group events for the weekly endeavor. I actually forgot about the one in the Alik'r Desert, which is the one I did last time-- and recommended to other players in the forums because of how fast the bosses can respawn!

But I decided to do the one for dailies in Chorrol instead. I thought it could be done in one day; but it turns out that the dailies from Weynon Priory don't count for the endeavor, despite awarding Chorrol reward containers and being classified as Chorrol quests in the Achievements, so it will take at least 2 days (which is fine with me).

When they first announced endeavors-- during a Twitch stream, I believe-- I think they did say something along the lines that the endeavors would be for doing things that we were probably doing anyway. However, they never said that every endeavor would be something that every player was doing anyway. I think they're trying to "cover the bases," as it were, by including a variety of activities among the daily and weekly endeavors, so each player can choose the ones they want to do-- but that still can't guarantee that the offered endeavors will satisfy each and every player each and every day or week.

I actually enjoy that some of the endeavors aren't things I'm doing every single day or week. As is the case with events which offer rewards for doing activities in specific zones, I'm using the endeavors as opportunities to avoid doing the same things in the game every single day and getting in a rut. I mean, sure, I tend to do the endeavors that are for activities I do anyway; but I also do endeavors for activities that I haven't done in a while.